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arni

arni noun: the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee).

arni: the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
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Noun (1)

arni (plural arnis)

  1. The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)
    • Besides these three species and the zebu, the yak, the gayal, and the arni (not to mention the buffalo or genus Bubalus) have been domesticated; making altogether seven species of Bos.1868, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
    • In the arni of India they are enormously long.1904, Arthur Erwin Brown, “The Zoology of North American Big Game”, in American Big Game in Its Haunts
    Synonyms:
    Asian buffalo, Asiatic buffalo, wild Asian buffalo

Noun (2) capitalized: ARNI

ARNI

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitor.

Synonyms of arni

  • Asian buffalo
  • Asiatic buffalo
  • wild Asian buffalo

Forms of arni

pluralarnis

Questions about arni

What does arni mean?
Arni means the wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee).
What part of speech is arni?
Arni is a noun.
What is the plural of arni?
The plural of arni is arnis.

Words near arni in the dictionary

  1. Arney
  2. Arneys
  3. ARNG
  4. Arnhem
  5. Arnhem Land
  6. arni
  7. arnica
  8. arnicas
  9. arnicin
  10. arnicine
  11. arnidiol

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